Biostat 510 Final Project Winter, 2010
Click here to download a copy of the revised Biostat 510 final project assignment.
Click here to view descriptive statistics for all adults (ages 20 to 69) in the Tecumseh data set.
Please work independently on the project. If you have problems, contact me (kwelch@umich.edu) or send an email to the Biostat 510 instructors' group (b510inst@umich.edu). Class sessions will be held at the regular times on Tuesdays and Thursdays until the end of the semester. I will be lecturing during each class, and will also answer a few questions regarding the project. These class sessions will primarily be lectures, and not help sessions for the project.
The project is due by 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 21st in Kyana Taylor's office in the Biostat Department (Room 4210 SPH II), just across the hall from the elevator and the stairs.
You can get a CD on which to place your final project data set, your SAS commands and your SPSS commands from Kyana in room 4210 SPH II.
Each student has a random sample of 800 observations drawn from the Tecumseh Community Health Study data. To get your data set, download it to your computer. You will need to write a data step to read the data into SAS, and a data list command to read the data into SPSS. Let me know if you have any problems getting your data, or cannot find your data set here.ABORIN.dat AECANNON.dat AHICKOK.dat ALEYJ.dat AMOUSSAW.dat ANNETTEU.dat APPEREZ.dat BAUERLM.dat BEALEE.dat CAIKEL.dat CAMHUYNH.dat CAOSIRUI.dat CEHAMP.dat CFOSSANI.dat CHENQIAN.dat DABBAGH.dat DANABRY.dat DVERUT.dat DWMCCOR.dat ECHANOWS.dat EGREZLIK.dat EKMORENO.dat EMIMAGOC.dat FATIMAFA.dat FINCHC.dat FISAYON.dat FRAVIVA.dat GOODNIS.dat HANFRI.dat HCAMERON.dat HCRISSMA.dat HIMESFER.dat HMABUH.dat HUA.dat IACONI.dat IHSANABD.dat JAMAGA.dat JCOALSON.dat JDEERING.dat JFOULK.dat JOAHSU.dat JSRICH.dat JTEHRAN.dat JVIV.dat JVJR.dat KALTSCHA.dat KCAWEBER.dat KELLFERG.dat KHERI.dat KSTOJAN.dat KUHUANG.dat LAMETARA.dat LARISSAA.dat LAUJOHNS.dat LIHUI.dat LINTOW.dat LISAZOOK.dat LIUMEI.dat LOLOZWO.dat LSCHRAUB.dat LSHIPLEY.dat LUT.dat MAFOLGA.dat MAYLEM.dat MEHWISHK.dat MINGLANG.dat MMOHAME.dat MOBYDICK.dat MOUSA.dat MTHOMPS.dat NATESCHA.dat QXIAO.dat RAJITKUL.dat RAYNAED.dat REEDJDS.dat RJAMESON.dat RLENG.dat RWEINTRA.dat SAMFG.dat SARAHRC.dat SBARN.dat SERBINJ.dat SFDEVITA.dat SMALAY.dat SPNORMAN.dat TESSARI.dat TIFLOREN.dat UMAP.dat UOFMCHOI.dat WEIWEISZ.dat WGOLDMAN.dat XHCAO.dat